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By now, this whole TVA-Watts Bar Nuclear Reactor Unit 2 saga is past degenerating into farce. It is still offline and no official explanation. A pro-nuclear blogger supposedly calling up the TVA PR person to get an explanation is emphatically not a replacement for an official report. It simply makes the situation even more patently absurd.

What did the US NRC conclude in March, about which they are soon having a meeting? “The NRC has determined there is sufficient evidence to support the existence of an environment within the Operations Department where your employees do not feel free to raise safety concerns to your management because they fear retaliation and do not feel that their concerns are being addressed. Our concern is heightened by information that indicates undue influence and direction of licensed operators from sources external to the control room affected operational performance. We are concerned an environment…